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GMAT
外刊例句
- We will avoid responding directly on Twitter, but will rebut him on Facebook and in e-mails to staff and the media.
我们会避免直接在推特上回应,但会在脸书和给员工及媒体的电子邮件中反驳他。
——《经济学人》 - The president asked Adm. Michael S. Rogers, the director of the National Security Agency, if he could do anything to rebut news stories on the Russia matter.
总统询问美国国家安全局局长、海军上将迈克尔·S·罗杰斯,问他是否能做些什么来反驳有关俄罗斯问题的新闻报道。
——《纽约时报》
基本释义
[verb] claim or prove that (evidence or an accusation) is false
[动词] 声称或证明(证据或指控)是虚假的
深入解读
Rebut 这个单词比较好记,可以简单拆分成 re + but 。该词源自古法语 reboter/rebuter (猛力推回),14世纪进入英语后原本是指“击退、制止”,不过这个含义现已不再流行,转而从武力上击退衍生出语言上的击退。
即到了19世纪初期后, rebut 发展出现在的主要含义指“反驳、驳斥、驳回”,也就是给出理由证明证据、指控、批评等是虚假的、错误的或不可接受的。与十分近义的 refute (驳斥、批驳、反驳)略有不同的是, rebut 更加正式,常在有组织的辩论或法庭(见下面的影视用例)中使用,比如:
- 他讲演的大部分时间都在反驳对他外交政策的批评。但他的主要论点经不起认真推敲。
He spent most of his speech rebutting criticisms of his foreign policy. But his main argument doesn't really stand up to scrutiny.
而从 rebut 衍生出的 rebuttal 则是作名词表示“反驳、驳斥、驳回”,比如:
- 他以前的同事们告发他是间谍。现在他正在对前同事的指责进行逐条反驳。
His former colleagues have denounced him as a spy. Now he is conducting a point-by-point rebuttal of charges from former colleagues.
影视用例
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I'm entitled to rebut that laughable presumption.
我有权反驳那个可笑的推测。
出自2014年上映的美国剧情电影《法官老爹》(The Judge)。
同近义词
- refute: prove (a statement or theory) to be wrong or false; disprove
- confute: prove (a person or an assertion or accusation) to be wrong
- invalidate: make or prove (an argument, statement, or theory) unsound or erroneous